Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

> I don't know from what era "the earliest written
> sources" hail 

That’s the rub. If they are contemporanious to the 
pharaohs in question (e.g. the pharaoh who elevated 
Joseph to prime minister) then the earlier 
qestion concerning the meaning of QCP pertaining 
to a god is strengthened, but if the sources stem 
from a much later time (e.g. attributing divinity 
to strengthen later claims) then the claim that QCP 
is for a superior but not necessarily a god to an 
inferior is strengthened.

Genesis, as it presently stands, favors the latter 
reading, as it does not attribute divinity to the 
pharaoh of Joseph’s time.

Thanks for the reference.

I hope your meal was tasty.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: Deborah Millier <deborahmillier AT yahoo.com>

> "*From the earliest written sources* the king stands
> at the centre of his country as a divine force,
> identified in his first name and title as a
> manifestation of the god of the power in the skies,
> Horace the falcon" (Quirke, Stephen and Jeffrey
> Spencer eds., THE BRITISH MUSEUM BOOK OF ANCIENT
> EGYPT, NY: Thames and Hudson Inc. 1992, p. 58,
> emphasis mine).
> 
> I don't know from what era "the earliest written
> sources" hail (I'm to preoccupied to check right now;
> dinner's calling), but I'd wager that some are older
> than middle kingdom.  Maybe I'll check after my
> burgers.
> 
> Shalom,
> -- Michael Millier
-- 
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